Two Black women The Descendants Project (Louisiana) now own Louisiana’s Woodland plantation.

The site will NOT host weddings, will have an exhibit on Kid Ory (who was born at the plantation) and will offer genealogical help to its Black visitors, Carlie Kollath Wells reports. axios.com/local/new-orle…

A Louisiana plantation has new owners: two sisters whose ancestors were enslaved in the area. trib.al/pVHt72C

Louisiana '1811 slave revolt' plantation, Black-owned for the first time

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Louisiana plantation, home to 1811 slave revolt, is under Black ownership for first time nola.com/news/plantatio…

Woodland Plantation under Black ownership for first time trib.al/FQSZajO

We're honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr with our first Community Conversation followed by a community-wide clean-up, Monday, January 15th.

The Descendants Project will not be silence.
Learn more about how Joy Banner filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the St. John the Baptist Parish Council chairman for threatening her free speech.
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Louisiana Illuminator

Recently Dr. Joy Banner appeared in this news piece called 'More Controversy Over St. John Grain Elevator' on WWL-NO (CBS) - Eyewitness News at 10 giving an update on The Descendants Project's fight against Greenfield's proposed grain elevator.
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Our Co-founder, Dr. Joy Banner was threatened with fines and arrest for exercising her First Amendment rights at the St. John Parish Council meeting. The Lens sheds light on the incident in their latest article.

#TheLensNola 🔍 Banner planned to ask the council why they were retaining a lawyer to defend its president from personal ethical concerns. But was interrupted by council chairman, who cited an invalidated statute & warned her that, she could face criminal prosecution

Jo Banner, co-founder of The Descendants Project, is in Nairobi, Kenya at the third meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) tasked with developing an international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution.
Beyond Petrochemicals #BreakFreeFromPlastic Deep South Center for Environmental Justice

The Descendants Project is very happy to announce that Louisiana Judge Nghana Lewis has issued an order prohibiting 'consideration of, processing of, or any legal action taken, whatsoever' on the St. John the Baptist Parish's rezoning application until the Court orders otherwise.

Please come to Monday's meeting!
We are still awaiting the Judge’s decision from Thursday’s hearing.
The CCR

Jo Banner, co-founder of The Descendants Project, is in Nairobi, Kenya to mark the third meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee where the #PlasticsTreaty is being negotiated.

Learn about #BreakFreeFromPlastic:
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#PlasticsCrisis #INC2

We are proud to announce that Dr. Joy Banner, co-founder of The Descendants Project is the recipient of the 2023 Emerging Leader in Historic Preservation Award from Saving Places. Awards to be presented during #PastForward23 in Washington, DC, Nov 8-10. SavingPlaces.org/conference.

We are excited to share this story with you from ARCHITECT Magazine.

In this article they write about how The Descendants Project is a a grantee of the Mellon Foundation's Humanities in Place program with the development of our Many Waters House.
More here:
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We are so excited for #PowerUpintheGulf .
It looks like it's going to be such a great event.

Co-founder, Joy Banner, of The Descendants Project will be speaking on Friday, November 3rd between 4pm to 5pm.

Register here for the event: act.350.org/event/global-p…
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“Transnational corporations are the largest contributors to the pollution & health problems here in Cancer Alley. I was there at the United Nations to literally drive home that what is happening in Louisiana is an international human rights crisis.' - Jo Banner, The Descendants Project (Louisiana)

The co-founder, Jo Banner, of The Descendants Project participated in the United Nations 9th Session of the open-end intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with human rights last week in Geneva, Switzerland.
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